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Ruth chapter 4 verses 13 through 17.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife and he went into her and the Lord gave her conception and she bore a son

Then the women said to Naomi

Blessed be the Lord who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel.

He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you,

who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.

Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.

And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name saying a son has been born to Naomi.

They named him Obed.

He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.

I love the book of Ruth.

This story is awesome in so many different ways and this conclusion is one of the ways.

So it's a powerful story of God's provision for Naomi, this widow who

loses her husband and her sons and brings Ruth into her life which she doesn't even see

necessarily as the blessing that she is but God's design and using Ruth, this Moabite woman to bring about not just blessing

for Naomi and her family, but in a far greater way, so the way this book ends the fact that Obid is born to

Boaz and Ruth and Obid would become the father of Jesse who would become the father of Jesse, who would become the father of David.

So this, you realize, doesn't even say this till the end of the book, but you realize, whoa,

this is the story, not just of God's provision for Naomi and Ruth and Boas.

This is God's provision for his people. This is the grandfather of King David.

This is how King David's granddad was born. So in in this story, oh there's so much we could talk about in this story, but I just want you to think about the family tree at work here

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